In high income countries like Australia, the UK and the USA, children from socioeconomically disadvantaged families have higher rates of obesity than those children experiencing less disadvantage.
In urban areas, where there may be less disadvantage and more access to products and services, people reported a low level of distress for all drought categories.
Higher alcohol consumption per month was associated with higher district-level socio-economic ranking, indicating less disadvantage (AOR 1.2, 99%CI 1.02, 1.4).
In this simple scenario, either higher mutability (large μ) or less disadvantage (small s) of allele a will increase the equilibrium frequency of a.
Various hypotheses have been posited to explain differences in the ways Māori self-identify their ethnicity or ethnicities that may also be linked to more or less disadvantage.
We hypothesised that candidates from certain sociodemographic groups applying to medical schools that utilised the UKCAT scores relatively heavily as part of their admissions processes would experience less disadvantage compared with those applying to institutions with a relatively weak use of the test.
For example, lenders, especially banks, are effective monitors with less information disadvantages, and thus may be a good substitute for IC disclosure.
A greater sense of reassurance from follow-up and less perceived disadvantages related to follow-up were connected to a more frequent preference for a hospital doctor as follow-up provider.
To consider any other less permanent disadvantages in life the respondents may experience, such as lack of time or facilities, we asked whether they had been able to exercise outdoors as much as they had wished (constraints) in the previous 12 months.
Another less technical disadvantage of this technique is the safety in the handling of radioactive products.
